RE: PAB elections

["Antony Van Couvering" <avc@interport.net>]

Kent,

I think you should keep on keeping on until things are better sorted.

Antony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pab@gtld-mou.org [mailto:owner-pab@gtld-mou.org]On Behalf Of
> Kent Crispin
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 4:07 PM
> To: pab@gtld-mou.org
> Subject: PAB elections
> 
> 
> Believe it or not, a year has passed, and, according to the draft 
> charter for PAB the term of office for the current officers is 
> expiring.  It is, therefore, my duty to call for elections.
> 
> The circumstances, however, are rather uncertain.  As I indicated in
> my email a couple of weeks ago, the current best guess is that the
> policy body that will deal with the gTLDs will be the DNSO -- neither
> PAB nor POC will be in the role they were originally designed for,
> but the DNSO as currently envisioned is borrows a great deal from PAB
> and POC. 
> 
> The world we see today is much different than we hoped for one year
> ago, and, indeed, in my pessimistic moments I sometimes think that
> the forces of darkness have prevailed.  But in my more optimistic
> moments I think that some minor progress has been made, and that the
> DNSO is where we should now be expending our energies. 
> 
> But we are still left with the following question: is there any
> significant interest in holding an election? 
> 
> If so, then we will hold one, and I might even nominate myself for
> some office. 
> 
> If not, then I propose that we simply keep the PAB mailing list
> going, for a while at least, and see what happens.  While there may
> not be the energy to maintain an organizational structure, there may
> still be some utility in maintaining a communications channel to
> those who support the principles of the gTLD-MoU. 
> 
> Comments?
> 
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